Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wikkjā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vicia, from Proto-Italic *wikiā, of disputed origin.

Noun

*wikkjā f

(Continental West Germanic) vetch (plant of the genus Vicia)

Declension

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wikkjā
Genitive	*wikkjōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wikkjā	*wikkjōn
Accusative	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōn
Genitive	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōnō
Dative	*wikkjōn	wikkjōm, wikkjum
Instrumental	*wikkjōn	wikkjōm, wikkjum

Descendants

Old Dutch: *wikka
- Middle Dutch: wikke
  - Dutch: wikke, wieke, wik
  - Limburgish: wik
Old Saxon: wikka
- Middle Low German: wicke
  - Plautdietsch: Wekj
  - → Lithuanian: vikis
Old High German: wicka, wiccha
- Middle High German: wicke
  - Alemannic German: Wick, Wicke
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: Wicke
  - German: Wicke
  - Central Franconian: Wick, Weck, Wöck
    Hunsrik: Wick
  - Luxembourgish: Wéck, Wick
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Wicke
- → Old Czech: vika
  - Czech: vikev
- → Hungarian: bükköny
  - → Romanian: bechen, bicăn, bichen, bichină (dialectal)
- → Slovak: vika
- → Old Polish: wika, wyka
  - Polish: wyka, wika
  - → Old East Slavic: вика (vika)
    - → Russian: ви́ка (víka)
    - → Ukrainian: ви́ка (výka)